Carrion
Pronunciation
Origin
Old French caroigne, from Latin caro ("flesh").
Full definition of carrion
Noun
carrion
(usually uncountable; plural carrions)- Dead flesh; carcasses.Vultures feed on carrion.
- SpenserThey did eat the dead carrions.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 119Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree.
- (obsolete, derogatory) A contemptible or worthless person.
- ShakespeareOld feeble carrions.